Person with legal responsibility

Person in charge of EU relations

Firstname, Surname:

Ms
Catherine Schultz

Position:

Vice President for Tax Policy

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation:

National Foreign Trade Council

The NFTC, founded in 1914, is the oldest U.S. business association dedicated to international tax, trade, and human resource matters. The NFTC’s approximately 250 members, representing the largest U.S. companies, are active advocates of free trade and a rules-based economy. The NFTC’s emphasis is to encourage policies that will expand U.S. exports and enhance the competitiveness of U.S. companies by eliminating major tax inequities in the treatment of U.S. companies operating abroad.Furthering the NFTC mission as the pre-eminent business association dedicated solely to international trade and investment issues. Our mission is to advance global commerce through:

1 Advocating public policies that foster an open international trade and investment regime;

2 Mobilizing and disseminating expertise and information on key issues, such as: the world trading system, taxation, trade finance, economic sanctions and international human resources.

3 Influencing public debate through interaction with policy makers and opinion leaders and by convening government/private sector discussions of important issues.

The organisation's fields of interests are:

global

regional/local

Specific activities covered by the Register

Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:

The NFTC's main EU-related activity is our work on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP. NFTC is a member of the Business Coalition for Transatlantic Trade, the group of American companies formed to support TTIP and which will work to encourage the US Congress to support it once it is completed. The NFTC also maintains an active presence in Geneva working with the WTO on a variety of issues, mostly notably digital trade, free flow of information, intellectual property protection, and tariff reduction on environmental goods and services.

Number of persons involved in the activities described in the box above

Number of persons involved from the organisation expressed in % of working time:

25%: 3

Number of persons involved:

3

Full time equivalent (FTE):

0.8

Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Fields of interest

The organisation's fields of interests are:

Budget

Climate Action

Competition

Economic and Financial Affairs

Taxation

Trade

Membership and affiliation

Member organisations:

Membership of any associations/(con)federations/networks or other bodies:

As noted, we are members of the Business Coalition for Transatlantic Trade (BCTT).

Financial data

Financial year:

04/2013
-
04/2014

Estimate of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register:

< 9,999 €

Most recent financial information about funding received from the EU institutions:

No funding received from the EU institutions during the last closed financial year.

Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:

We have no resources invested in our comments and contribute no resources to EU institutions.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.